Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norwich South

CANDIDATE : Strauss

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Henry Strauss, K.C., was born in 1892 and educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1919 and took silk in 1946. He became Conservative M.P. for Norwich in 1935, but was defeated in 1945. During the war Mr. Strauss was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, until he resigned over disagreement with the Yalta Conference decisions. In 1946 he re-entered the House of Commons for the Combined English Universities. He is chairman of the S.C.A.P.A. Society and is on the executive of the National Trust.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldbury and Halesowen

CANDIDATE : Baxter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Baxter was born in 1911. After some years in the mercantile marine, he joined a firm of bolt, screw, and rivet manufacturers as a labourer and in 1939 was appointed general manager. He served during the war on a Ministry of Production area committee. He is chairman of the Non-Ferrous Small Rivet Association and vice-chairman of the Midland group of the Institution of Works Managers.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Lucy Middleton, member for this constituency since 1945, stood for South Padding-ton in 1931 and Pudsey and Otley in 1935. Bom in a Somerset village in 1894, she became a teacher in Bristol and Gloucestershire and an active worker in the Labour cause. In the conferences and inquiries from which the India Act, 1935, emerged she acted as political adviser of Hindu minorities. In 1936 she married Mr. J. S. Middleton, a former national secretary of the Labour Party.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston North

CANDIDATE : Amery

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Julian Amery, son of Mr. L. S. Amery, was born in 1919 and educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1941 he organized the first military mission to the Yugoslav Resistance movement, landing on the coast of Montenegro from a submarine. Later he was parachuted into Albania as a liaison officer with the guerrillas. After being wounded in action in 1944 he served on the staff of General Carton de Wiart, V.C., and as Mr. Churchill’s personal representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Richmond

CANDIDATE : Westwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Westwood, aged 39, is organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. He has acted as agent for the Labour candidate in previous Richmond elections. During the war he served with the Royal Marines and as a Commando.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Henderson, K.C., is a son of the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, 1929-31. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1921 and took silk in 1939. He was M.P. for South Cardiff in 1923 and again in 1929 and represented Kingswin-ford from 1935 until its extinction in the redistribution. He held a number of junior Ministerial posts between 1940 and 1945, and in the last Government became Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma, then Minister for Commonwealth Relations, and finally Secretary of State for Air.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Attercliffe

CANDIDATE : Farris

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Farris was born in London in 1905, and at 16 went to Belgium, working in an office for 18 months. Then he went into business with his father, and in 1933 joined a Sheffield wire manufacturers, and is now managing director. He was elected to Sheffield City Council in 1945, and is a freeman of the Cutlers’ Company, and on the executive committee of the Sheffield Philharmonic Society.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Park

CANDIDATE : Pryce

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Pryce, a native of Derbyshire, began work at 13 as an iron moulder, and later he joined a motor manufacturing firm as a departmental manager. He held office with local Conservative associations. He became a manager of a Sheffield firm of spring makers in 1948. He is a former memb?r of Ilford Borough Council. His war service included the Army and R.A.F.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend East

CANDIDATE : Runciman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. J. G. Runciman is a retired Army officer, who was born in 1895 and educated at Kirkwall Burgh School and Glasgow University. He served in the Royal Scots and Royal Tank Regiment, 1915-47. He is secretary to the Essex Growers’ Trading Association. A relative of the late Viscount Runciman, the Liberal statesman, he was first chairman of the Southend East Liberal Association.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockport North

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Evans, who is 57 and was born in North Wales, lives at Purley, Surrey. A barrister, he lived from 1921 until 1942 in Burma, where he was a magistrate and later a judge. Returning to England, he became a legal assistant at the Board of Trade and later at the Treasury, resigning to fight the election.

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